River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-02-10
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.
The investments in cattle in Colorado
amount to over $5O,O0O,00
Great Britain's naval outlay this
year will be about $66, 900, 900.
A colored peoples worlds exhibition
is TO be held in Birm ngham, Ala.
1t is believed that the fisheries debate
in the United States Senate will not
improve Sir John Macdonald's health
| any.
Mason Bey, formerly an officer in
the Confederate navy, is the only
American now in the service of the
Khedive Of Egypt.
Thomas Cordoba reports that the
comet in the constellation Grus Jan Is,
will become very bright and resemble
the comet of 1880.
The Second District of North Caro-
lima claims, per Simmons, its Congress
man-elect, tine Youngest member III the
country. He is but 81.
George II. Pendleton is on bis way
home from Germany, and there is no
Minister from this country now at
Berlin, Vienna, or Constantinople.
The whaling season has been I'M
profitable. The total catch of United
States vessels for the year yielded 20
600 barrel of oil and 309, ZOO pounds of
whalebone.
Charles Freund. truckdrlver of
Savannah. claims to have fallen heir to
tritle of S12, 900, 900, left him by a
! cousin ofhis father who lately died in
Paraguay.
Minnie Hauk viii leave her Paris
home in March and make professional
tour through Germany and Austria and
| afterwards test again the feXibility of
the English purse.
The German newspapers tell their
readers that France is ordering pro-
jeetiles containing a substance which
makes blOod-poisoning the result of
any wound received from them.
John 5. Staples, who was President
Lincoln's substitute in the army during
the War, is still living at Stroudsburg.
Pa. He is carpenter by trade, and
an industrious, thrifty citizen.
Fred Archer. the jockey, was one OF
the most popular men in England.
Prizes havelately been awarded for the
best three epitaphS on him-one of
them appropriately for ''raciness.
The venerable Marshal MacMahon.
now IS years old, continues to enjoy
robust health, but his two colleagues
orr rtn faurr.I 81 II
is fast breaking down, and Marshal
Canrobert is stone-deaf and marytr 10
the govt.
Joseph Waukazu. a full-blooded In
dian from White Earth Reservation,
has been ordained an Episcopal minis
ter III Minnesota He is handsome
man, sc years old. and remarkably in
telligent.
Lady Brooke, it is said, is to appear
in court with no less than fourteen
correspondents, the number of these
in fashionable cases being ever on the
increase, like that of bridesmaids at
weddings.
Gov. Gordon of Georgia, does not
intend that the crop of Southern
Colonies shall become extinct during
his reign. He has appointed staff of
twenty-one aides-de-camp who are enti-
tied to the rank of Lieutenant-C Colonel
Miss Matilda johnson has Just died
in London, 116 years old. Eighty
nine years ago her intended husband
died suddenly and she made a will
giving her entire fortune to the Military
Hospital and directing that Love
Killed Her" should be engraved on
her tombstone.
Alleged Englishmcn with an accen
remarkably German have been cap
tured at Lyons offering 10000 francs to
a young soldier for the pleasure of
examining for a few hours Boulanger's
new rifles with their special cartridges !
Ten Russian Cossacks with war maps |
in their pockets were found 12O miles |
inside the Austria frontier, and can |
only explain by saying they were lost.
President jackson in 1888 laid the
cornerstone of monument to Mary 1
Washington, mother of George, at /
fredericksburg, Va. Work was con
tinued thereon for four years. but
finally ceased. and has never been
resumed. A bill appropriating $4,000
for the structure has been offered in
Congress, and it will probably be com
pleted about the time New York Laws
the cornerstone Of the Grant monu-
ment.
Thomas Powell of Newark, y. j.,
who died recently, was long connected
with Leslie's publishing house. He
was born in England, and in his youth
was an associate Of Dickens. Leigh
Hunt. Browning. CARLYLE, and Beacons-
field. Powell was anindustrious worker
vet it is said that it was FROM him Dick
ems drew the immortal character of
Wilkins Micawber. The author and the
journalist were veung men then. but
Powell never forgave the caricature
that his friend had made of him.
Michael Ischuisk, a Hungarian, not
long settled among the coal-miners at
Mount Carmel. Pa, lost his wife Mpn-
day Of last week. The next day he
wanted to marry his dead wife's sister.
She refusing, he attended the funeral
Wednesday, aud. starting for New
York. he returned with q countrvwom-
an just landed from Hungary. Sunday
was their wedding-day.
A Yale College paper says that the
secular magazines and papers are re-
moved from the Dwight Hall reading
room Saturday. 1t is supposed the
religious weeklies are substituted in
order to give the students an opportunity
on the Sabbath to read the patent
medicine advertisements and the long
list Of valuable premiums" offered to
EOrriSfO5CB Herald.
Too well known TO need lengthy adver-
Sage's CataTTh Remedy.
Good Opportunity but Founn.